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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in online education technology are making it possible for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Meetup to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. People want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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